Stake DAO AI Skill

The Stake DAO Skill is an open-source Agent Skill that gives any compatible AI agent deep knowledge of Stake DAO and the ability to query live data from the Hub API.

Once installed, your agent can answer Stake DAO questions, fetch vault APRs, check sdToken pegs, look up merkle claims, and navigate this documentation — all without manual prompting.

It is read-only: it queries public APIs and does not sign transactions, touch your wallet, or access private data.

What it does

Answers questions about Stake DAO products (liquid lockers, vaults, curated vaults, Votemarket, lending)
Fetches live data from the Hub API (vaults, lockers, token prices, merkle claims, lending positions and health factors)
Queries DeFi Llama for protocol-level metrics (TVL, SDT price, fees, revenue)
Navigates this documentation for conceptual questions
Stays current automatically — discovers API endpoints at runtime, so it adapts when the Hub API changes

Example

You:    /stakedao what's the current peg of sdCRV?

Agent:  sdCRV is at 0.62 — trading at a 38% discount to CRV.
        TVL: $31.2M.
        APR: 17.8% base · 36.2% with vlSDT boost.
        Source: hub.stakedao.org/v1/lockers.

You invoke the skill explicitly with /stakedao <your question> (typed like a slash command), or it auto-triggers whenever your conversation mentions Stake DAO.

Installation

Claude Code

Clone the skill into your user-level skills directory:

git clone https://github.com/stake-dao/stakedao-skills.git ~/.claude/skills/stakedao

Restart Claude Code (or open a new session). Verify with:

/stakedao what's the current peg of sdCRV?

You should get a live number from the Hub API.

Cursor agent mode, similar

Agents with shell + filesystem tools can install themselves. Paste:

Install the Stake DAO skill from https://github.com/stake-dao/stakedao-skills

Does not work in chat-only UIs (claude.ai web, ChatGPT web) — they cannot clone repos.

Other tools

The skill follows the Agent Skills format. Tools without skill support can still benefit by pointing at docs.stakedao.org/llms.txt for documentation context, or by reading the repo's SKILL.md directly.

Use cases

A few prompts to try after install. Each works as /stakedao <prompt>.

Vault discovery

Show me the top 10 vaults by APR
Which vaults are available on Arbitrum?

Lending

What is the health factor of address 0x... on Stake DAO lending?
List Stake DAO lending markets with their utilization

Liquid Locker monitoring

What's the current peg of sdCRV?
Compare the peg of all liquid lockers

Rewards and claims

Check my pending rewards for 0x...
What merkle claims are available for my address?

Protocol metrics

What's Stake DAO's total TVL?
Show me 24h, 7d, and 30d fee data

Product education

How do liquid lockers work?
What's the difference between vlSDT and veSDT?

Troubleshooting

Skill doesn't load. Confirm the directory is exactly ~/.claude/skills/stakedao/ (not nested deeper) and that SKILL.md sits at the top level. Restart your agent after install.
/stakedao not recognized. Some agents only register slash commands inside their own command palette — try mentioning "Stake DAO" naturally instead. The skill will auto-trigger.
Stale data. The Hub API caches some endpoints for 5 minutes. Wait a minute and retry.
Multiple Claude installs. A project-local .claude/skills/ overrides the user-level one. Check both if behavior differs between projects.

Data sources

Source	URL	Coverage
Hub API	`hub.stakedao.org`	Vaults, lockers, prices, merkle claims, lending
API index	`hub.stakedao.org/llms.txt`	Endpoint discovery (self-describing)
Documentation	`docs.stakedao.org/llms.txt`	How things work, guides
DeFi Llama	`api.llama.fi`	TVL, SDT price, fees and revenue

Requirements

None. The skill uses WebFetch exclusively — no Python, no npm packages, no client-side tools.